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Thread #147458 Message #3420246
Posted By: MGM·Lion
15-Oct-12 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
Can you be more specific as to your 4 songs, Steve? Variants or entirely different songs?
But, even then, you have been claiming the phrase as a commonplace of C18 usage to explain how it infiltrated the song in place of misunderstandings of Bugaboo. It is the existence of the phrase in this sort of common usage which I dispute. You have not produced a single example of it used, except as a title and part of the eponymous text of some songs. Put up or...
And will you take on board that finding hidden meanings is not something I do: I hate the idea. All I did was direct people to some suggestions by someone else which I thought those interested in the history of this partic song should like to know about --